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Lebanon bouncer bound over for attempted homicide

Christopher Davis, 25, is accused of stabbing Jose Pacheco during a fight a year ago at Woofer Magoo's

By STEVE SNYDERLebanon Daily News

Updated:
02/22/2013 01:32:57 PM EST

Christopher Davis (LEBANON DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO)

Jose Pacheco Jr. admitted he was drunk and looking for a fight when he was dropped off at the parking lot at North Seventh and Willow streets about 2 a.m. March 2.

What he wasn't looking for was to get stabbed.

Pacheco thought he and Christopher Davis, 25, would slug it out, Pacheco said during a preliminary hearing Friday before District Judge Thomas Capello. They did fight, but at some point Pacheco was stabbed in back, stomach, chest, hands, mouth and head.

Pacheco was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital and then transferred to the Hershey Medical Center, where he was treated about two weeks before being released.

Davis, meanwhile, was charged with criminal attempt to commit homicide and aggravated assault. He was arrested in New York in June on a parole warrant from the Bronx for a robbery.

Davis had been using the name Christopher Cortez while he lived in Lebanon, police said. He was working as a bouncer for Woofer Magoo's, 605 Cumberland St., when he and Pacheco became involved in a fight.

"I was at Woofer's drinking," Pacheco said. "I was drunk. I got sloppy."

After he was tossed out of the bar, Pacheco said, he was called by someone and invited to go the parking lot at Seventh Street. Pacheco wanted to have "a fair fight" with "Max," whom Pacheco identified as Davis.

"It was your intention to have a fistfight?" District Attorney David Arnold asked.

"Yes," Pacheco said.

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In response to a question from Davis' attorney, Harry Fenton, Pacheco admitted he punched Davis, working as a bouncer, in the bar.